Date of source: Wednesday, July 18, 2001
The article gives all the details about how Al-Nabaa crisis started and about the legal procedures that were taken against the paper. It also gives part of the transcripts of the Higher State Security’s interrogations with the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Nabaa. In the interrogations, the editor in chief...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
During the demonstrations against al-Nabaa in the cathedral, the police held about 36 boys, of whom three were kept for 35 days. It is remarkable that the president of the US Copts Association started a campaign to free them AFTER they had been released. He also claimed that the arrested youths...
Date of source: Thursday, July 19, 2001
[This article is a follow-up of another article about the same subject. RNSAW, 2001, week 26A, art. 26] Bishop Dimitrious and priests in Malawi strongly deny the claims of the Australian Coptic Association Youth Branch that four girls from Malawi had been kidnapped.
Date of source: Saturday, July 14, 2001 to Friday, July 20, 2001
A lady wondered why attacking Sheikh Amr Khalid if God had guided thousands through him. A researcher in Islamism said that Khalid was trying to penetrate the elite class and the rich, and attract them to Islam, especially after the failure of political violence, which concentrated on attracting...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
Dr. Mohammed Emara said that Islamic thinkers are excluded from being granted the state award of merit because those who are in charge of granting the award are Dr. Younan Labib Rizq, Dr. Mourad Wahba, and Dr. Milad Hanna [they are all Christians]. In effect, these three represent only 10% of the...
Date of source: Wednesday, July 4, 2001
The author expressed the opinion that the cancellation of the pope’s weekly meeting was accompanied by fear of a return to the denominational atmosphere of the September 1981 events. The fact that the Coptic youth didn’t protest about Al-Nabaa to the People’s Assembly or the Supreme Press Council...
Date of source: Friday, July 6, 2001
The Copts Daily Digest published on July 8 an attack of Dr. Raafat Labeeb on an article of Mustafa Mahmoud in Al-Ahram a day earlier. Dr. Mahmoud wrote in that article that the Torah mentions nothing about the afterlife because Jewish rabbis had deleted everything from the original text to that...
Date of source: Saturday, July 7, 2001 to Friday, July 13, 2001
Sheikh Amr Khalid, an AUC [American University in Cairo] graduate, who now preaches in Al-Maghfira mosque in Agouza began his activities by preaching in homes. He then moved to preaching in mosques, and even on television. The national press distributes his tapes with their publications. Thousands...
Date of source: Tuesday, July 3, 2001
Several Egyptian media reported in May that four Christian girls from the Upper Egyptian town of Malawi had run away from their homes. The Australian Coptic Association Youth Branch had reported these girls were kidnapped and kept insisting this had been the case also after the girls had returned...
Date of source: Monday, July 2, 2001
The Egyptian weekly Rose el-Youssef published on July 24, 2000, a very negative story about Sudanese refugees in Egypt after Sudanese refugees and Egyptians had clashed in front of the Sacred Hart Church in ‘Abāsīyyah Cairo, where Comboni fathers are making a great effort to help these refugees....